Nov 05, 2018
Chen Chen, Reading & Craft Talk: November 7 & 8, 2018
Chen Chen is the author of When I grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities. He is the 2018-2020 Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University. His work appears in Poetry, Tin House, The New York Times Magazine, The Best American Poetry, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and more. He lives with his partner and their pug dog, Mr. Rupert Giles.
“Chen Chen muses his way through the idea of inheritance (and what it means to inherit things like love and family), a concept that is central to his identity as a queer Chinese-American immigrant.” – Literary Hub